Movie Review: 'Interstellar' or Star Bores?

November 4, 2014 9:30 PM

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Watching Interstellar's credits roll by after nearly three hours of gleefully geeky, labyrinthine plotting, I wouldn't have been surprised to see Sheldon Cooper listed as co-screenwriter. Yes, just when we thought we could wait no longer, director Christopher Nolan has supplied the world with another prolonged, at times nearly bewildering sci-fi adventure that will bear repeated viewings by viewers who are unemployed and have little else to do.

Surprisingly, the plot here is not as much the problem as Matthew McConaughey's mumbling. At times it as if he's auditioning for a dinner theater version of Brokeback Mountain. You can almost see him as Ennis Del Mar sobbing: "Why don't you just let me be? It's because of you, Jack, that I'm like th...